Greg Growden writes: This match is about as exciting as the usual week in Johannesburg before a Wallabies Test. What to do? Will I walk around the Sandton shopping centre for the 4963rd time. Maybe this time, I'll walk around it backwards, singing Dixie.

AAP writes: While only rugby trainspotters will be tuning into this one in Australia on Sunday morning, it shapes as a classic ding-dong derby between the worst two teams in the South African conference. The Cheetahs aren't playing an Australian team so should return to their usual losing form. Except that they're playing the Lions, who chalked up their one and ony win of the season against the Cheetahs. Still, the Lions are defensively woeful and the Cheetahs, with in-form halfback Sarel Pretorius calling the shots, showed enough in their last-round win over the Brumbies to suggest they will prevail this time around.